[bksvol-discuss] Re: Another Stripper Question
- From: "Gerald Hovas" <GeraldHovas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 10:15:17 -0500
Evan,
I've wondered if the Stripper would accidentally strip a short line that is
the end of a paragraph from the previous page, but I haven't had any
problems with the few books I've worked on with page numbers at the bottom
of the page.
You'll need to add a false header above the chapter headings, though, to
keep the Stripper from getting them. I've been using the title and putting
it above the chapter heading with a blank line in between, and the books
come out fine, despite all of the other pages having their headers stripped
manually instead of trying to normalize them.
Jim once mentioned that they tried to recognize chapter headings when
Bookshare developed the Stripper, so I'm wondering if the stripping of the
chapter headings is a side effect of that attempt. If I can find one of the
books I've downloaded which has the chapter headings stripped, I'll look to
see if they are stored in the NCX file along with the page numbers, or if
they were completely stripped.
HTH
Gerald
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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Evan Reese
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 9:07 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Another Stripper Question
Dear Folks,
I have a quandary that is perfectly suited to the collective experience of
the people here.
I have a book here with page numbers at the bottom of the page, not at the
top. I am wondering if I should move them to the top. The book has no
headers at the top of each page, and I would not be at all surprised if the
stripper removed the first line of text from each page if it doesn't see
something like a page number above it. I have seen it remove titles at the
beginnings of chapters when there was nothing above the title, even though
all the headers at the tops of the other pages were removed. I like to
leave the book as close to the original as possible, but I don't trust that
stripper as far as I could throw the computer it's running on. Clearly, it
does not just look for repeated text on successive pages that would indicate
the presence of a header.
What do people think? Should I play it safe and move the page numbers? or
can any of the more technically knowledgeable people here give me any
assurance that leaving the page numbers where they are will not result in
the first line of text from every page being removed if there is nothing
above it except a page break and a blank line, which is the way it looks
right now?
Thanks for any guidance.
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